~about

I'm Gaurav Singh — a software engineer who likes small tools, careful systems, and the unreasonable satisfaction of a fast feedback loop.

Day job: building at Atlan, where I spend time on data platforms and the quiet infrastructure that keeps them honest.

Off hours: language models, small enough to read end to end. I trained an 11-million-parameter BitNet from scratch — every weight −1, 0 or +1 — and then spent longer writing the WebAssembly kernels to run it in a browser tab than I spent training it. Along the way I measured what ternary actually costs, including the comparison where it loses.

Also essays I don't publish and poems I rarely finish. This site is the few of each that made it past the drawer.

currently

building

inference engines and the models that run on them — quantization, on-device execution, and the kernels underneath

reading

low-bit quantization papers, and whether their numbers survive being reproduced

contributing

inference routing in vllm-project/semantic-router

learning

how to write less, better. Slowly.

colophon

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